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Joe Rogan is the living embodiment of being so open minded that your brains fall out.
I mean that’s beautifully put…..
But unfortunately it’s simpler than that. It’s the story of a reasonable man that achieved beyond his dreams and then flipped sides because of money and status.
“Suddenly I have an opinion on the capital gains tax.” Type of stuff.
Was he a 'reasonable man' before or after he decided the moon landings were fake?
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I, too, have an opinion on the capital gains tax. It should be taxed at the same rate as income. We can let them keep the exception on the first half million in profit because I'm feeling nice today.
It’s actually higher in many scenarios.
What needs to be taxed like income is loans against the stocks
Or a simple .01 cent financial transaction tax. Absolutely no effect on the average person, a huge way to raise revenue from bankers and stock traders.
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Joe Rogan: What dumb people think smart people are like.
Aka, The Big Bang theory for bros.
He has a head filled with ground beef and he looks like a thumb.
That's insulting to both ground beef and thumbs, but I'll allow it because it's accurate.
He's got beef brain
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I'm fifty. Joe Rogan is fifty six. Even though I was young in the eighties, by 1992 I had already lost six people I knew to AIDS. Joe, being six years older than I, would have witnessed peak AIDS apocalypse as an older teen. He was even from New Jersey, not some suburb in the midwest. He would have seen some shit. All he has to do is remember, but he chooses willful ignorance.
We all just lived through covid. It's not that hard to imagine someone denying the existence of a global plague that effects people they know.
We are all living through global climate change, and the collapse of late stage capitalism, etc. These and their I'll are selling copium to the masses of folks who can't face reality and choose to live in fantasy.
Even those of us in the Midwest knew enough about AIDS by the 90s to understand this is just utter bullshit. I'm from Indiana, which is where Ryan White was born and died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White
And if AIDS was caused by poppers, then Ryan White would not have died.
He has repeatedly talked about how frightening it was to live thru the AIDS epidemic and seeing people drop left and right
My favorite part about those years is that we didn't have to care what Joe Rogan thought.
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Oh, he remembers, it's just he doesn't give a fuck. All he wants is attention, because that's how he makes cash.
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Rogan is such a shit. I can't wait for his endorsement of Trump. You know that asshole's endorsement is coming. And he'll do it while talking about how old Biden is and ignoring the fact that Trump is only four years younger. Because he's a fucking idiot.
he was around during trump, he endorses the same things as trump, the same candidates as trump, with a few exceptions in both, and says "nah bro, I'm just thinking for myself and outside the mainstream"
I fully expect Rogan to endorse RFK Jr.
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I wish this idiot would have a stroke and die in his sleep.
Rogan or Weinstein?
"Yes"
With all the red meat he eats it's probably coming
Someone should tell those babies born with AIDS to stop taking poppers.
What are you talking about, the mother takes the poppers and then the baby reaches into her gut and eats a few. Bam AIDS! We need fetus D.A.R.E programs now.
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If he can't eat it, fuck it or shoot it, he can't understand it
I'm pretty sure he doesn't understand those either.
Or smoke it.
Oh Bret. Having taken some of his classes in 2012, and having known his family and kids... I instantly recognize him in grift mode. He will always take refuge in plausible deniability and hyperfocus on a concrete detail (like 80s drug culture being unhealthy for people's immune systems) and handwave the significance of other factors.
He then leaves the conclusions to people like Rogan and won't necessarily refute ridiculous takes.
It was a technique for guiding academic seminars he used. It helped cut through people getting stuck in the weeds, but it also often just led to him allowing the seminar to derail and go into the weeds.
They don’t care if what they are spouting is true or not. They just want a platform to make money off the gullible. It’s all about having a platform and making $$$.
How is this not illegal in the US ? Someone needs to sue this idiot
AiDS Denialism is a thing?
Free speech vs causing catastrophic harms. From the perspective of deaths caused, why is this different to firing shots into a crowd?
The American conception of freedom of speech is all about personal rights, with no thought to personal responsibility. The reason freedom of speech is important is precisely because it's consequential. The idea of using free speech (a precious right) responsibly, if it ever existed, is gone now .
The reason and justification for free speech is also about preventing tyranny and holding people accountable and allowing unusual dissenting voices to be heard.
But a few now own all the means of communication, control and shape the speech and have practically become the government. There is no freedom of speech if so much of it is controlled and so much noise is blasted. Speech has become a commodity and if it's free it's worthless.
I can decide to turn off nonsense podcasts. I can't decide not to get shot if someone is shooting at me.
A better metaphor might be screaming "that guy's got a gun" in a crowded theatre. I might be able to ignore it, but lots of people are going to believe it and act accordingly, and their reaction is probably not going to be good for anyone.
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I'm torn between "free speech!" and "this should be illegal".
There have always been limits. You can't shout fire in a crowded theatre.
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